Selling Calculus for life sciences textbook for $65 email me: *************

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Calculus for Life Sciences by Schreiber (with the gold fish on the cover)

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He seems like a good teacher, but the amount of work was crazy and the rate at which we moved through concepts was too much. He does genuinely care but it was difficult to take this class in a hall with 300+ other students.

Great Class, pietro is an amazing teacher and really makes sure you grasp a concept before moving on.

He wasn't that bad. I would argue that his tests were tough but hopefully I passed the class.

Honestly just terrible as a professor. His Lectures were point less because his hw and tests were 10000x harder than what he taught in class. I would say just teach yourself because he doesn't do a good job teaching concepts. If you don't like word problems just stay away from this professor because thats all he gives for hw and tests. Also very terrible when it comes to office hours. He either wouldn't show up or he would say he would be right back and literally leaves and doesn't come back. Seems like he doesn't care about his job or his students, He showed up almost 40 mins late to the final which is totally unacceptable. I would personally never take a course with this professor again . I would not recommend this professor but if you really need to take the class i hope there are others teaching it and if not Good Luck Dealing with this guy

Honestly he is one of the worst teachers at UCLA. He makes the course 1000 times harder than it has to be. Also he doesn't give you a study guide which means you have no idea what to study for. Also he told us that a topic was going to be on the exam and then he ended up not putting it on the exam. I spent hours studying for topics that were never even put on the exam. Also I would like to add that he was 40 min late to the final. He literally writes the exams the night before and is super last minute about everything. Honestly would never take his class ever again. One of the worst math professors at UCLA.

I don't understand why people have a negative opinion of him. He teaches math so of course it is not going to be an easy class to get an A in. To be successful in this class you need to attend his lectures and do alot of problems from the book in order to FULLY understand the concept. Once you understand the concept his tests are not that bad but if all youre doing is memorizing how to solve something without really knowing why you wont get the problems on the exam.
Also he is very helpful. I have emailed him many times and he has replied answering my questions within an hour or two. He held multiple additional office hours for the final and went over anything you didnt get. with that being said you need to put in work yourself in oder to do well!

It is very sad how he has bad ratings. Honestly, he is a great professor. Yes, his class might be hard for some people, but if you wanted an easy class, why are you even in UCLA? If you're not up for a beneficial challenge, then that's just upsetting.
Anyway, his way of teaching really helped me understand the conceptual aspects of math, something I struggled before. So if you're up to really try to understand math, he is the guy to take. Plus, he is very funny and makes math interesting all the time, plus he's super clear.

Pro:
1. Seems to genuinely care about students. He holds plenty of office hours and I have seen him stay behind lecture to answer questions from students.
2. Lectures are clear and cater to math dummies like me. He actually writes plenty of English on the board so people with weaker math foundations can easily understand.
3. Talks about how what we learned can be applied to the real world. I know some people hate that he does this, but I personally found the things he talked about interesting.
4. Has a sense of humor. Not visible at first, but later you can kind of tell.
5. His homework and exams really aren't that bad. I don't know what people were expecting, but I thought the lectures do cater to exams and homework quite well. I will warn you though. Pietro is pretty big on real world application, so he prefers word problems over mechanism. If you hate word problems, you should probably take Paige. I saw her exams, there were barely any word problems on there.
Con:
1. He talks way too softly. I usually always sit in the front five rows, but I often have difficulty hearing him. I wonder how the twenty rows behind me can even hear a thing that he says.
2. His study guides are " possible inexhaustive". This may just be an idiosyncrasy but I hate it when professors write that on their study guides. To be fair though, his study guides were always overly but never under exhaustive. So I don't really know why he says that.
3. When he is behind schedule, he tests the material he didn't teach anyway. He either asks the TAs to teach it or the students to read for themselves in the textbook. I don't do well with stress, so I really hate it when he does this.
4. He can be LAZY. Despite the fact that Pietro seems genuinely concerned with his students, he can also be very lazy. He didn't upload the syllabus until about a week into class. He doesn't assign homework over the weekend like most professors. Instead, he does it on Mondays or Tuesdays. He doesn't post exam study guides until 4~5 days before the actual exam. (This probably also indicates he also procrastinates when he makes exams) Lastly, and most importantly, he doesn't print the exams ahead of time. As a result, we had to wait for almost 40 minutes before he came in with the exams.